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Indervir Singh, 54, a firefighter, drinks water as he sits inside a fire truck after an operation to control a fire that broke out at a car scrapyard in New Delhi, India on May 30, 2024. Singh has worked for the Delhi Fire Services for 32 years but he can't recall responding to as many fires as this summer. Calls reporting fires between April and June more than doubled from a year ago to over 9,000, fire services data show. And deaths from fires more than tripled in that period, from just 10 a year ago. “I have attended to several back-to-back calls” on recent shifts, said the grey-haired Singh before he rushed to the scene of yet another blaze in his thick jacket, heavy boots and red helmet. (Photo by Adnan Abidi/Reuters)
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